Illium - Indentured Service

When you visit Illium, you'll be able to easily access its bar/club, a location at the northeastern end of the map called the Eternity Bar. When you arrive there, you'll find an Asari and a Quarian at the entrance, and you can immediately engage the Asari in conversation to get this side quest going. The Asari, while remaining nameless, identifies herself as a slave broker. Her job isn't to keep and use slaves, but rather to work out the indentured servitude contracts of her clients, which she then sells. The Quarian who will be enslaved isn't exactly blameless, nor ignorant. Indentured servitude isn't indefinite slavery, but rather voluntary slavery, and the Quarian is doing it because she ran up quite the debt she couldn't pay back. In return for paying off her debt, the Quarian agreed to enter into a contract. But naturally, there's a problem.

The problem is a simple one. The Asari thought for sure that a specific company would be interested in the Quarian's skillset, but they aren't interested at all. While you can offer to buy the servant from her, do nothing at all, or do any number of other things, the Paragon route through this side quest is simple. Offer to help the Asari speak with her contact at the company she thought would be interested, who, not surprisingly, is in the same bar you are. You're seeking out an Asari identified as a Synthetic Insights Rep, and she's at the top end of the bar. When you speak with her, you have to convince her to take the Quarian (well, you don't have to, but it's essentially the only way to navigate the side quest successfully). Doing so isn't exactly as hard as you'd expect. Just convince her to take the contract, and then dock the Quarian's pay while letting her go. Doing so will make Synthetic Insights look like an accepting company (by hiring a Quarian) and a progressive company (by freeing an indentured servant).

With the good news garnered from the Synthetic Insights Rep, you can head back to the slave-trading Asari to report the new deal. This is great news for both she and the Quarian (the former gets a minor fee, the latter gets to work off her accumulated debt), so all is now well with these two. Once the news is reported, the side quest effectively ends. Remember that you can take a Renegade route through this side quest as well, though the outcome won't be even remotely the same. You can also be neutral and ignore the plight of the Quarian and the slave trader completely, though certain permutations through that conversation tree can net Renegade points, even if you didn't want them. So be careful!